Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | These ‘ would seem to have been traditional at the time , for Ormandy did the same in his Philadelphia recording . |
| 2 | Stone is reported to have been unhappy at being passed over for the DEC presidency . |
| 3 | Dunning and Murphy have tried to argue that violent street-gangs , whose antics led to several alarmed inquiries around the turn of the century , were likely to have been present at football matches from the outset . |
| 4 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 5 | Although he was a member of the supreme council of the IRB , and is supposed to have been present at a meeting in September 1914 at which it was decided to stage a rebellion against British rule in Ireland , he played no role in planning the Easter rising of 1916 . |
| 6 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 7 | In making his proposal Gore cited new evidence made public by the Financial Times and by ABC News Nightline , which quoted an Iranian arms dealer , Jamshid Hashemi , who claimed to have been present at two meetings between the late William Casey , the Reagan campaign chairman , and members of the Iranian government , held in Madrid in late July and mid-August 1980 . |
| 8 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 9 | As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due . |
| 10 | As for Constantine 's ‘ conversion ’ — if that is the appropriate word — it does not appear to have been Christian at all , but conventionally pagan . |
| 11 | The painters themselves , despite the highly organized aspect of the demonstration , appear to have been surprised at the sensation caused by their works and at the sudden notoriety which they acquired overnight . |
| 12 | Interest in the Lamb is known to have been considerable at this period , when the third invocation addressed to it in the Mass was changed from " have mercy upon us " to " give us peace " . |
| 13 | One may cite not only the case of the group already mentioned which felt itself to have been ill-treated at the hands of Civizade , but also the experience of Kadiri Celebi , the Mufti in the time of Suleyman , who spent nine years in great hardship as a before receiving an appointment , probably at the beginning of the second decade of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | It also seems to have been customary at the death of a scholar for those of his students who were sufficiently advanced in their studies to become . |
| 15 | From the outset , commentators seem to have been astonished at the great interest the competition evoked . |
| 16 | The outgoing Cabinet Secretary , Mayumi Moriyama , who had occupied the most senior post ever held by a woman , was reported to have been furious at her summary dismissal . |